Colorado’s universal preschool plan called for children with risk factors to get up to 30 hours a week at no cost to their families, provided there was enough money. It turns out there isn’t.
Nikki Spasova expected her 4-year-old son to get free full-day classes through the state’s new universal preschool program since he’s still learning English.
But just two weeks before Kristian was set to start preschool, Spasova learned that wasn’t the case. Instead, the state program will cover just 15 hours of preschool, the same hours offered to Colorado children who don’t face barriers to success in school. Colorado’s universal preschool plan called for children like Kristian to get up to 30 hours a week at no cost to their families, provided there was enough money. It turns out there isn’t.
In the final weeks before school starts, that shortfall triggered a provision in state law that tightened eligibility requirements so that only children who are low-income and have a second risk factor will receive full-day classes.Some of the affected children are learning English, like Kristian. Many more are from low-income families — and money for additional child care subsidies is limited, too.
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